FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS

Melodrama biography cold war thriller drug memoir essay in fragments mystery Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman s long awaited first original book a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1945 1982 Written quickly under a self imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution Compelling beautifully written and genuinely moving echoing the fragmentary and reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran this is a story that has everything sex drugs art the city cinema and revolution